cutting help

[cps]

I figure the summer will be the easiest time for me to watch my meals and am going to try to cut some weight now. I haven't got as big as I want to but I feel like it is time to switch stuff up, and I've always be around or above 15% bf so I just wanna see what I would look like down around 10%bf.

For weights I am going to do what I was doing for bulking but 3x12 instead of 3x8 (i really need that for endurance) and then I am going to try and do cardio 5x a week for about 45 minutes or so. I have a few questions.

1. I rembember hearing something like losing 1%bf a week is a good goal, does this seem reasonable?

2. Also how much of a calorie deficit should I have? (calculators say I should get around 3500 a day).

3. What is the prime target heartrate for burning fat?

4. And should I stop taking creatine for trying to cut?

Thanks for any help with these questions.

 

[newf]

I figure the summer will be the easiest time for me to watch my meals and am going to try to cut some weight now. I haven't got as big as I want to but I feel like it is time to switch stuff up, and I've always be around or above 15% bf so I just wanna see what I would look like down around 10%bf.

For weights I am going to do what I was doing for bulking but 3x12 instead of 3x8 (i really need that for endurance) and then I am going to try and do cardio 5x a week for about 45 minutes or so. I have a few questions.

1. I rembember hearing something like losing 1%bf a week is a good goal, does this seem reasonable?

2. Also how much of a calorie deficit should I have? (calculators say I should get around 3500 a day).

3. What is the prime target heartrate for burning fat?

4. And should I stop taking creatine for trying to cut?

Thanks for any help with these questions.

1. Possible but it will get slower has you near sub %10.
2. Start at 500cals.
3. HIIT is better for fatloss in IMHO.
4. Sure.

 

[cps]

yea I will definately do HIIT, but right now my right leg is messed up, according to the doctor i pulled my hip flexor, but i really dont know if thats it, hurts to put pressure on it most the time. so right now it is hard for me to go reallly hard like required for HIIT, I pretty much limited to the bike, but I will see how much I can push it on there.